Ecology has always lacked a strong overarching theory like those behind physics or chemistry. But no longer, thanks to the universal throttle inside every living thing, say ecologist James Brown and physicist Geoffrey West

Most people find snakes scary. Some believe they are evil. Reptile expert Harry Greene, who studies them in the wild, insists they are dangerous only when threatened – and he has never been bitten. For him, a snake's relationship with its pre

In the mid-1920s, a series of pamphlets appeared on the streets of Melbourne published under the name of one William Rodier. The pamphlets' lurid cartoons raged against complacent landowners for not having employed his technique to control the rabbits tha